Recently, the weather has been getting hotter and hotter, and the children are on summer vacation, which is a time when the number of children with fever is decreasing, but the number of children visiting the hospital for simple fever is increasing instead of decreasing. Wang Zhenguo, Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Wuxi Eighth People’s Hospital
Nowadays, people’s living standards are gradually improving, and after the temperature rises, air conditioners are turned on at home, and children are more sensitive and have weaker resistance, plus the air conditioning temperature is too low, or the cold air is blown directly onto the body, or often in and out of places with and without air conditioning, alternating hot and cold, resulting in children’s external bundle of wind and cold, pores are closed, and summer is supposed to be a sweating season, proper sweating can not only help heat dissipation, but also detoxification, conducive to metabolism. The external wind and cold block the pores, causing the child to sweat poorly, or even appear to sweat closed, so that heat can not be distributed, Yong in the body, resulting in fever.
For this type of fever, there is usually no obvious sign of infection in Western medical tests, and the child does not have an obvious cough, and occasionally has runny nose. It is not recommended to use antibiotics or saline too early for treatment. When the fever is obvious, take some antipyretic drugs, together with some physical cooling, or give the child appropriate sweating, usually 2 to 3 days to restore the normal body temperature.
For children without fever, parents are also advised not to set the temperature too low when turning on the air conditioner, and to reduce the wind speed and turn the wind upward, and to give the child a long-sleeved dress and pay attention to protecting the stomach and back to prevent getting cold.